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Record 19647

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I have not done much with the Sermons you sent me nor after the Bristol Huricanes Would you expect it, still I have not been altogether idle, for vamping old Sermons is to me no unpleasant kind of Employment.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Until: 10 Nov 1831
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Pucklechurch
specific address: his son George's rectory
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:George Crabbe
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 24 Dec 1754
Socio-economic group: Clergy (includes all denominations)
Occupation: clergyman and poet
Religion: Christian
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: George Crabbe
Title: [sermons]
Genre: Sermon
Form of Text: Manuscript: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned
sent by his son, John

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 19647  
Source - Print  
  Author: George Crabbe
  Editor: Thomas Faulkner
  Title: Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1985
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 381
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: George Crabbe, Thomas Faulkner (ed.), Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe (Oxford, 1985), p. 381, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19647, accessed: 18 April 2024

Additional comments:

Assistant editor, Rhonda Blair. Letter from George Crabbe to John Waldron Crabbe. Sermons being by Crabbe is only a guess - they could have been JWC's?

 

 

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